[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

[Reginald Beardsley]

LoL!

It has become completely nuts. We have MBR, GPT, EFI UEFI and probably some I don't yet know about. They may or may not be exactly the same depending upon the persuasions of the OS or program.

Having wasted a couple of days going down this rabbit hole, I plan to be more cautious. Yeah, I know I can fix it, but I don't know how long it will take and this was a pretty rude time sink.

Now on to making AHCI work on the Z400.

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" - Admiral Farragut at the battle of Mobile bay.

Have Fun!
Reg

     On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 01:09:48 PM CST, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:  
 
 On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote:
> In message <20210302014545.GA6017 at imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes:
> >These are Solaris partions, now called slices.  They are within a
> >single FDISK partition.  You can use the partition command within
> >format to see the slices.  You can use the fdisk command within format
> >to see the FDISK partitions.
> 
> They are GPT partitions, not Solaris slices within a legacy MBR fdisk
> partition.

Sorry.  I should not have replied.  I've never used GPT disks,
although ZFS offers to use the whole disk, whatever that means.  I
only know about FDISK partitions and Solaris slices.  There was once
one type of partition, then there were two, and now there is three.

> There may be nomenclature byg here:
> # zpool create -f -B -d weetest c4t0d0
> # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0
> If you run fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0, you will see a single EFI partition,
> but fdisk is just reporting that its a GPT labeled disk.
> format -e /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 -> partition will allow to create GPT
> partitions, including the EFI GPT partition type only required if
> booting UEFI, though I find FreeBSD's gpart(8) easier for the OP's use
> case of multiple pools and filesystems on a single disk.


-- 
-Gary Mills-        -refurb-        -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

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